University Daily Kansan, October 16, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 9
Photos show solar system might exist
By United Press International
DASADENA C. 96
PASADENA, Calif. - Astronomers have photographed for the first time evidence indicating a previously unknown solar system exists as big and two times as bright as the sun, scientists announced yesterday.
Bradford Smith, of the University of Arizona, said the photographs revealed a vast swarm of solid particles that form a disk 40 billion diameter around Beta Picturis, a car about 50 light years from Earth.
Earlier this year, infrared radiation detected the first evidence of the disk and raised the possibility that another solar system may exist. The photographs provide the first visual proof to support the finding.
"The indications are fairly good we are 'seeing another solar system, although we can't actually prove there are planets around this star.' Smith said in a telephone interview from Hawaii.
Spith, who teamed with Richard Tortle of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the significance of discovery is partly "philosophical".
"It it shows our own solar system is not unique," he said. "There are many who believe that the fact that our sun has planets around is some strange thing that happened. What we know now that is there is evidence of it and there are good indications there are many, many more.
"Other solar systems exist and other planets, and, if one wants to extrapolate that, that other life exists." Smith said.
TUSCALOOSA, ALA. — President Reagan takes a bite of a Big Mac during lunch at a McDonalds near the University of Alabama. Reagan yesterday spoke at the university and was joined by Charles Patterson, a student, at lunch.
Reagan gets Big Mac attack
By United Press International
NORTHPORT, ALA — President Reagan, doing what millions of Americans do for lunch on the fly. He's Big Mac at McDonalds yesterday.
"What am I supposed to order?" the president asked aides after reaching the counter of the fast-food outlet near the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he had given a campaign speech.
Reagan settled on the double-decked Big Mac hamburger — special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onion, sesame seed bun and all complemented by an order of french fries and tea tea.
promptly pulled out a $20 bill and collected his change — $17.54.
Collecting his lunch, Reagan began to walk to a seat before reporters brought him up short by asking if he was going to pay. The president
Restaurant manager Rod Hughley said he was told at mid-morning the president would be stopping by, but not what Reagan would order.
After a brief time, Reagan stood up to leave, still clutching his bag of fries. Reminded they could be fattening, the president noted he had skipped dessert and added, "The gym will take care of it."
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